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Latest News
/ 8 years agoI’m better now after injury time out insists Taylor
NEWS EXTRA By NEALE HARVEY WASPS hooker Tommy Taylor is ready to re-launch his bid for further England honours after recovering...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoDavies to sign dual contract in place of Webb
By STEFFAN THOMAS NEWS EXTRA GARETH Davies is set to further enhance his position as Wales’ first-choice scrum-half by signing a...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoArms Park victory takes champions further clear at top
By ANDREW DEERING Cardiff 20 Merthyr 25 REIGNING champions Merthyr edged further clear at the top with victory at the Arms...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoRed card proves costly as Neath are swept aside
By DEAN JONES RGC 66 Neath 3 RGC enhanced their Premiership title claims with this crushing win over 14- man Neath....
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoReynolds’ late try earns Carmarthen their bonus point
By JAY BAYFORD QUINS were made to work hard as they claimed a bonus-point victory. An early Steff Marshall penalty put...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoWoods has win formula again to halt Commandos
By JAY BAYFORD Ebbw Vale 19 Pontypridd 5 EBBW Vale produced a professional performance to beat Pontypridd at Eugene Cross Park...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoSwansea celebrate as Wizards worry over Andrews injury
By PAUL HOPKINS Aberavon 7 Swansea 19 SWANSEA recorded backto- back victories for the first time since their return to the...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoMacdonald hat-trick not enough as Quins close out victory
DMP Sharks .22 Harlequins 31 A FLYING start by the Sharks was not enough. They scored two tries in the opening...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 8 years agoControversy over ‘no try’ as Russia fall to Spanish
By JON NEWCOMBE Round-up RUSSIA’S chances of taking the direct route to Rugby World Cup 2019 were left in tatters after...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 8 years agoBrunel rap for putting Jalibert in harm’s way
Mega-boot: Lionel Beauxis is back at fly-half PICTURE: Getty Images It didn’t take long for the club v country rows that...
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Six Nations
/ 8 years agoAlun Wyn: We can bounce back against Ireland
Defiant: Alun Wyn Jones ALUN WYN Jones vowed Wales will bounce back from their Six Nations defeat to England when they...
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Six Nations
/ 8 years agoEngland won arm-wrestle as Wales paid for their errors
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE …EVERY WEEK England won this arm-wrestle of a contest by playing the conditions better than Wales,...
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Six Nations
/ 8 years agoRobbed…but I still say Wales can win the title
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND Impressive: Gareth Anscombe showed his versatility against Englan THE focus of Wales’ defeat to England...
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Six Nations
/ 8 years agoAnscombe’s anguish recalls the horror of JJ in 1974
PETER JACKSON VERDICT Tough ‘HQ’ initiation: Rhys Patchell As if the wounded Welsh hadn’t suffered enough before kick-off and immediately after...
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Featured
/ 8 years agoGregor Townsend names Greig Laidlaw among six changes to Scotland team
Scotland head coach makes three changes to the backs and three to the forwards for clash with France
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Featured
/ 8 years agoEddie Jones names England team to play Wales and plays mind games with Rhys Patchell
The England head coach warns Patchell to expect a more robust defence when he sees England players running to tackle him
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 8 years agoEaling Trailfinders are on the long trek towards Premiership
By Brendan Gallagher Could Ealing Trailfinders be the next Exeter Chiefs? Both clubs were founded in 1871, both have long rugby...
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoJackson column: Shaun Edwards knows how to win at Twickenham
Peter Jackson recalls an extraordinary classic at Twickenham ten years ago
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoDallaglio: Move might help James Haskell find his best form
Lawrence Dallaglio talks of his former Wasps team-mate's next move when his contract at the Ricoh expires at the end of...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoFormer All Blacks great Conrad Smith drops hint on when he will retire
Now 36, the Pau centre has spoken about his future ahead of the Brisbane Tens tournamant
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Featured
/ 8 years agoTop international rugby referee has say on football’s VAR teething problems
The Northern Hemisphere's first professional referee, Ed Morrison, talks about the evolution of the TMO in rugby
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoSale Sharks flanker Dave Seymour retires from rugby
Former Sale captain calls time on career to focus on business interests
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Featured
/ 8 years agoWarren Gatland names unchanged team to face England at Twickenham
Gatland confirms Liam Williams will be allowed to play for Saracens this weekend as he recovers from injury
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Featured
/ 8 years agoBen Youngs suffers suspected ligament damage
Leicester Tigers scrum-half to have a scan on Monday
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Miscellaneous
/ 8 years agoWyn Jones fires stern warning to England
By ALEX BYWATER ALUN Wyn Jones warned England there’s still more to come from Wales after Warren Gatland’s side put on...
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Miscellaneous
/ 8 years agoWage hike see Quins declare £4.8m loss
By NEALE HARVE SPIRALLING wage costs contributed to Harlequins declaring ‘unsustainably high’ operating losses of £4.8m for season 2016-17. Quins, who...
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Six Nations
/ 8 years agoJoseph must stop ambling through and get positive
More like it: Jonathan Joseph makes a break against Scotland in last year’s Six Nations PICTURE: Getty Images IF Jonathan Joseph...
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Six Nations
/ 8 years agoDallaglio: Move might help Haskell find his best form
By NEALE HARVEY JAMES Haskell’s sadness at being released by Wasps could galvanise his bid to represent England at the 2019...
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Six Nations
/ 8 years agoNtamack double defies an Irish fightback
France U20 …34 Ireland U20 …24 ROMAIN Ntamack scored two tries as France opened their campaign with victory in Bordeaux. The...
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Six Nations
/ 8 years agoNew boys sparkle as England start so well
By GEORGE LAWRENCE Leading from front: Ben Earle Danger from deep: Tom Parton ENGLAND U20s opened the defence of their Six...
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Six Nations
/ 8 years agoWales send out warning to their rivals
By SAM JACKSON Wales U20 …36 Scotland U20…3 WALES produced a clinical five-try display to open their Six Nations campaign with...
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Six Nations
/ 8 years agoCaptain Carys tells Wales to be clinical
By SARAH HURSE HANNAH Bluck’s try on debut for Wales helped her side survive a late onslaught from Scotland in a...
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Six Nations
/ 8 years agoCattell back for Red Roses’ Italian job
By JAMES BREACH PREVIEW Italy Women v England Women Today. Kick-off 5.30pm SARACENS centre Lauren Cattell will earn her first cap...
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Six Nations
/ 8 years agoGive us a real Anglo-WelshCup rather than this pale imposter
WHAT is the Anglo-Welsh Cup good for? Absolutely nothing in terms of a comprehensible competitive format for Premiership clubs and Welsh...
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Six Nations
/ 8 years agoHaskell deserved swansong season as thanks for his loyalty
JAMES Haskell’s exit from Wasps is a clear demonstration that loyalty is becoming an increasingly scarce commodity in the professional game....
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoHere’s how to boost Anglo-Welsh Cup
SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: newsdesk@therugbypaper.co.uk AM I alone in...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoLower league talent will be missed until the RFU take action
NICK CAIN reports (TRP 28/1) that ‘Premiership ring-fencers are mobilising again for another big push aimed at ending promotion and relegation’....
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoKennedy speaks out of self-interest
WOULD Nick Kennedy of London Irish have been keen on ring-fencing the Premiership last year? His opinions, given London Irish’s current...
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Features
/ 8 years agoDai Lama is wonderful fun, just don’t drink with him!
COLIN BOAG Well, it has started, and for the next seven weeks rugby will feature on terrestrial television on five weekends...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoVersatile Josh out to prove himself again
By JON NEWCOMBE JOSH Beaumont says he has returned from his latest injury setback stronger than ever as he looks to...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoJamie may stay say Quins as their injury woe starts to ease
By NEALE HARVEY HARLEQUINS supremo John Kingston has refused to rule out the possibility of Wales centre Jamie Roberts remaining at...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoPacific is washing in waves of talent
WHILE many T1 nations continue to plunder the South Pacific, it might be timely to highlight France’s increasingly fruitful rugby relationship...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoArgentina claim most southerly venue
Outpost: Ushuaia stadium DUNEDIN, the last port of call for many Antarctic explorers back in the day before they headed south,...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoRUGBY MATTERS
Trailfinders are on long trek towards Premiership BRENDAN GALLAGHER A new weekly look at the game’s other talking points COULD Ealing...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoProject players may be thing of the past for new-look French
IT’S going to be a rocky, controversial, ride for France one suspects with Bernard Laporte heading up the Federation, but at...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoDeano will finish job says Falcons boss
By NEALE HARVEY NEWCASTLE chairman Semore Kurdi is confident Dean Richards will finish the job at the resurgent Geordie club. Kurdi,...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoRing-fence ‘would threaten Carnegie’s future’
ENDING promotion and relegation would place a “huge question mark” over Yorkshire Carnegie’s future, according to chief executive Gary Hetherington. After...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoQuick double from Cooper fires Falcons into last four
By ALAN HEDLEY NEWCASTLE were left to rue last week’s defeat to Bath after missing out on a home semi-final. The...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoGalloping George is ready for England
By NEALE HARVEY KEN PISI notched a fine try-double but it was his wing partner George North who will be giving...
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